Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Most of us have heard this saying at some time in our lives. Now, according to new research from Australia, that saying might be true. At least the part about being ‘early to bed.’ Australian researchers studied 2,200 Australians 9 to 16-years-old. [...]

Carrying a little extra weight as you get older might help you live longer, acting as a cushion from the ‘slings and arrows’ of old age. Sound too good to be true? It is. Surprisingly, the idea has been floated around in the past few years, especially since a 2009 analysis of Statistics Canada data [...]

A new study suggests that once eating a particular food becomes a habit, people will keep eating it even if they think it tastes disgusting. To conduct the study researchers at the University of Southern California gave moviegoers popcorn to eat during a screening. Some got week-old, stale popcorn while others received a freshly popped [...]

You’ve recently been banded. You wake up in the morning and feel tightness in your stomach. This means your band is restricted. Don’t worry – it’s completely normal to experience this. A glass of warm water with lemon juice every morning is a good way to loosen your band and increase your comfort level as [...]

A new study suggests doctors aren’t discussing weight loss surgery as an option with their patients nearly as much as they should. The study, conducted by the Obesity Action Coalition and Ethicon Endo-Surgery, shows that while four out of five obese individuals had discussed their weight with a doctor, only one in ten who met [...]

You’ve been successfully fitted with your Slimband. Congratulations! The Slimband adjustable gastric band is a useful tool in your quest to shed those excess pounds. But the Slimband alone is not enough. From here on in you need to use various supports and life skills if you’re to successfully reach your goal weight: Effective Strategies [...]

A new study published in the Journal of Physiology has shown that exercising before breakfast can negate the pitfalls of high fat, high calorie diets. Belgian researchers recruited 28 healthy, young men, and divided them into 3 groups. All 3 groups consumed a diet that contained 50 per cent more fat and 30 per cent [...]

A recent study by researchers in Somerset, UK, has shown that type 2 diabetes may be alleviated, or even go into remission, following gastric banding surgery. Two groups were used for the study. Group 1 followed 34 obese, type 2 diabetes patients for 36 months after their gastric banding or gastric bypass surgeries. In the [...]

Some days it can be hard to keep sight of the targets we set for ourselves. There are times we falter and lose sight of the goals we put blood, sweat, tears and then some into achieving. When this happens, it’s time to re-focus and commit yourself again. Think of yourself as an outdoorsman in [...]

Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think says that cues in our homes could be making us overweight. Wansink is the Director of the Cornell University Food & Brand lab. According to Wansink, dinner plates have gone from an average size of 10 inches across to 12. “What’s the [...]